My favorite farmers market...

...is my backyard.  From left to clockwise: kohlrabi coming in slowly now just a few at a time, spinach, baby potatoes from one yellowed plant, one garlic bulb from a late mistake transplant that already died back, one small red onion bulb that kept getting broken off, and one green onion that couldn't survive the rabbits.

Basically all blunders and random vegetables.  Fried up in an egg scramble you'd never know it.

Green Onions

Green Onions are just immature onions. Before they bulb out they grow their tall tops. I thinned a few just to see out they are progressing. The one on the left had been in the refrigerator so it looks white from condensation. I think these are white onions (maybe yellow) but we also planted some red onions that seems to be much further along and even starting to bulb out.

Hail and lemonade

This is the second time this week we got hail....much worse this time than last.

Some damage to lettuces and quite a bit to the onions. To turn these atmospheric lemons into lemonade I gathered all the broken onions and garlic leaves. These will cook up very nicely..and with great delicate allium flavor.

And several pounded radishes.

Spring workday in the garden

This Saturday in the garden was an EARLY one. 7AM because I had to get to a mini-retreat for the county party and Kyle...wait, I don't know why Kyle was up that flipping early. Anyways, some early work plus returning in the afternoon made for a big jump start to the spring.

Prepping the existing beds this year meant raking off the leaf cover and the big chunks that had "risen" through the compost. The loose soil barely needed a two inch deep raking to fluff the soil for planting.

Not purely the square foot method, but marking the areas this year with string helps us know where and when we are planting what.

Most of these long strings have quick maturing radishes planted under them for a living divider. Several large section of lettuces planted as well.

Early Direct Seed: carrots

Early Direct Seed: leeks (that's the garlic in the background)

Onion rows as dividers.

Old fence sections for trellis. This will be for cucumbers.

Planning helps....this map changed several times and is bound to change again.

Just another day of glass :-(